Industrial Innovation and Environmental Regulation: Developing Workable SolutionsIDRC, 2007 - 305 pages What role should governments play in protecting the environment and controlling the environmental impacts of industry? Do regulations benefit the environment? And how do they affect industrial innovation? Since the early 1970s, regulations have been used to coerce producers of goods and services into internalizing the environmental costs of production. These efforts have often faced opposition on practical and ideological grounds. Beginning in the 1980s, there has been a movement toward liberalization, coupled with the continued failure of the market to protect the environment as a public good. As a result, private and public sector interests have been debating the appropriate role of governments in protecting and improving the environment and controlling the environmental impact of industry. Using case studies from numerous countries, this book examines political and industrial trends and the responses to these challenges. The authors conclude that the complexities of environmental and economic relationships disallow universal solutions, and they stress the need for context-specific perspectives on the role of regulatory measures in environmental innovation. |
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... particular firms and industries in Argentina , Taiwan , Nigeria , Japan and Canada . UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY UNU - MERIT IDRC CRDI Industrial innovation and environmental regulation : Developing workable solutions Edited.
... Argentina 1994- 2001 ... 93 3.2 Surveyed firms ' sectoral distribution 96 3.3 Surveyed firms ' sizes 98 3.4 Environmental investments 1993–1997 98 3.5 Firms ' environmental management according to market orientation 99 3.6 3.7 Adoption ...
... Argentina . He has written extensively on trade , industrial restructuring , foreign direct investment , environmental and technology issues , mostly in relation to Latin America . John Devlin is Assistant Professor in the International ...
... Argentina since the early 1990s . After experiencing major pollution problems , a series of regulations were introduced to curb industrial pollution . As with many other less developed economies , envi- ronmental regulations had limited ...
... Argentina's weakness in environmental manage- ment is due to an absence of clear institutional responsibility and a fail- ure to enforce existing regulations. This situation still holds true over a decade later. Nevertheless, the ...